Posted on 06/10/2019 3:11:36 PM PDT by ebb tide
June 10, 2019 (American Thinker) — A Muslim migrant in Rome recently stabbed a Christian man in the throat for wearing a crucifix around his neck. The assailant, a 37-year-old Moroccan, is accused of attempted homicide; "religious hate" is cited as an "aggravating factor" in the crime.
This is hardly the first "religious hate" crime to occur in the context of the cross in Italy. Among others,
What is it about the crucifix that makes some Muslims react violently? Islamic hostility to the cross is an unwavering phenomenon — one that crosses continents and centuries, one that is very much indicative of Islam's innate hostility to Christianity.
For starters, not only is the cross the quintessential symbol of Christianity — for all denominations, including most forms of otherwise iconoclastic Protestantism — but it symbolizes the fundamental disagreement between Christians and Muslims. As Professor Sidney Griffith explains, "[t]he cross and the icons publicly declared those very points of Christian faith which the Koran, in the Muslim view, explicitly denied: that Christ was the Son of God and that he died on the cross." Accordingly, "the Christian practice of venerating the cross ... often aroused the disdain of Muslims," so that from the start of the Muslim conquests of Christian lands there was an ongoing "campaign to erase the public symbols of Christianity, especially the previously ubiquitous sign of the cross."
This "campaign" traces back to the Muslim prophet Muhammad. He reportedly "had such a repugnance to the form of the cross that he broke everything brought into his house with its figure upon it," wrote one historian (Sword and Scimitar, p. 10). Muhammad also claimed that at the end times, Jesus (the Muslim "Isa") himself would make it a point to "break the cross."
Modern-day Muslim clerics confirm this. When asked about Islam's ruling on whether any person — in this case, Christians — is permitted to wear or pray before the cross, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Tarifi, a Saudi expert on Islamic law, said, "Under no circumstances is a human permitted to wear the cross," nor "is anyone permitted to pray to the cross." Why? "Because the prophet — peace and blessings on him — commanded the breaking of it [the cross]."
Islamic history is a reflection of these sentiments. For instance, the aforementioned Sheikh al-Tarifi also explained that if it is too difficult to break the cross — for instance, a large concrete statue — Muslims should at least try to disfigure one of its four arms "so that it no longer resembles a cross." Historic and numismatic evidence confirms that, after the Umayyad caliphate seized the Byzantine treasury in the late seventh century, it ordered that one or two arms of the cross on the coins be effaced so that the image no longer resembled a crucifix (Sword and Scimitar, p. 54).
Testimonies from the very earliest invasions into Christian Syria and Egypt of Muslims systematically breaking every crucifix they encountered abound. According to Anastasius of Sinai, who lived during the seventh-century Arab conquests, "the demons name the Saracens [Arabs/Muslims] as their companions. And it is with reason. The latter are perhaps even worse than the demons," for whereas "the demons are frequently much afraid of the mysteries of Christ," among which he mentions the cross, "these demons of flesh trample all that under their feet, mock it, set fire to it, destroy it" (Sword and Scimitar, p. 27).
Reminiscent of the recent drawing of a cross in fecal matter on a French church, in 1147 in Portugal, Muslims displayed "with much derision the symbol of the cross. They spat upon it and wiped the feces from their posteriors with it." Decades earlier in Jerusalem, Muslims "spat on them [crucifixes] and did not even refrain from urinating on them in the sight of all." Even that supposedly "magnanimous" sultan, Saladin, commanded "whoever saw that the outside of a church was white, to cover it with black dirt" and ordered "the removal of every cross from atop the dome of every church in the provinces of Egypt" (Sword and Scimitar, pp. 171, 145, 162).
Lest Muslim hostility to the cross still seem aberrant — limited to some obscure saying of Muhammad or "ancient history" — below is a very partial list of examples of how the crucifix continues to throw even "everyday" Muslims into paroxysms:
Egypt: A young Coptic Christian woman named Mary was mauled to death when her cross identified her as a Christian to Muslim Brotherhood rioters. Similarly, 17-year-old Ayman, a Coptic student, was strangled and beaten to death by his Muslim teacher and fellow students for refusing to obey the teacher's orders to cover his cross.
Pakistan: When a Muslim man saw Julie Aftab, a Christian woman, wearing a cross around her neck, he attacked her, forced battery acid down her throat, and splashed it on her face — permanently damaging her esophagus, blinding her in one eye, and causing her to lose both eyelids and most of her teeth.
Turkey: A 12-year-old boy in Turkey wearing a silver cross necklace in class was spit on and beaten regularly by Muslim classmates and teachers.
Malaysia: A Christian cemetery was attacked and desecrated in the middle of the night by unknown persons in the Muslim-majority nation. Several crosses were destroyed, including by the use of "a heavy tool to do the damage." Separately, a Muslim mob rioted against a small Protestant church due to the visible cross atop the building of worship. It was quickly removed.
Maldives: Authorities had to rescue a female Christian teacher after Muslim "parents threatened to tie and drag her off of the island" for "preaching Christianity." Her crime was to draw a compass — which was mistakenly taken for a cross — as part of a geography lesson in class.
As Islam's presence continues to grow in Europe, it should come as no surprise that attacks on crosses are also on the rise. Aside from the aforementioned attacks in Italy, the following occurred either in France and Germany, where attacks on churches and crosses have become endemic:
Such is the history and continuity of Islamic hatred for the cross — that symbol that represents the heart of the Christian faith, namely the death and resurrection of Christ, two events Islam vehemently denies.
The jihad on the cross began with Muhammad, was carried out by early caliphs, and continues to this day by jihadis of the world, not to mention the occasional "everyday" Muslim.
For more on the long history of jihad on the Christian cross, see the author's recent book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.
Published with permission from the American Thinker.
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Democrats and Muslims have a lot in common.
Time to destroy this “religion”. Utterly and with extreme prejudice.
No one means that not one single person. Clearly this guy is reporting it. And the person who posted it, is reporting it. So, the headline is simply wrong.
Let US pray that misguided; immigration, Islam, and climate bridge builder Pope Francis gets a Colonel Boggie moment ( the lead character in the movie Bridge On The River Qwai played by Alex Guiness) and does a mea culpa and finally decides to question the results of what he’s done what he’s done and falls on the dentonator which destroys the bridges he built) and resigns.
most of the Christian-majority countries are going DOWN and will be conquered by the Islamonazis
especially in Europe and eventually in North America (just taking a little longer due to numbers, but they’re flooding in!)
the western governments are mostly inviting or enabling or permitting the Islamic enemy to invade their countries, often offering them free food, welfare, rent, medical care, everything...
our Ruling Elites in the West are using OUR taxpayer money to sell our our own countries countries
“Before we put a show of unity with Muslims, let’s have them begin by respecting our civilization and our culture.”
When they stand before a Holy God that knows no evil, they can point and say “Look, I’ve got more good deeds than evil deeds.
Because I violently attacked the little girl wearing the crucifix.”
Yeah, they’ll be toast if they don’t find Jesus.
Democrats are salivating over the muzzie’s behavior
Yup, proof again that these people are animals. Get them the Hell out of the US, after all they all say they live to kill or convert us.
F the animals.
All they can do is destroy. When have you heard of an Muslim actually inventing anything, they even have to be taught to make bombs or they buy them.
Come gather ‘round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.
What’s become of news coverage about that big old church that was torched in France?
Horrible and they let in millions into Europe.
The headline is NOT wrong. It refers to nobody in the MSM is reporting it.
The only actual invention credited to muslims in 1400 yeas is the cell phone bomb ...
Recall the tombstones of Aussies being destroyed in Libya. It’s been 75 years since the Aussies liberated Libya from the Nazis.
But just let one Christian group do something bad (which they wouldn’t) and it’d be all over the MSM for 24/7/365
But just let one Christian group do something bad (which they wouldn’t) and it’d be all over the MSM for 24/7/365
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